By Vaibhav Raghunandan Every Monday, at the break of dawn, Sneha’s husband leaves home to find work at a construction site in North Delhi. The walk, the queue, the competition means getting picked to work on a site for the week is a bit like buying into a lottery. Most Mondays, he wins, because he has fixed the game. The contractors and the foremen at most of the local sites
The administration, however, has not compensated other Mitanins’ work adequately and has thus been misusing their sense of social commitment
It’s been two years since India has been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the new cases and death toll have dropped, India still has to totally recover from the unprecedented disruption caused by the pandemic. The country has reported over 43 million Covid cases and close to 517,000 deaths in the past two years. In the face of all this, civic society organisations